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| I had been working in high German for 12 years, & when I came to Berne I had a real shock, as I couldn't understand anything. | |
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...I think out of the "major cities" in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the Bern dialect is the hardest. Whenever I'm in Zürich I tend to understand more of the Swiss-German I hear spoken there.